{"id":19,"date":"2020-05-06T16:03:58","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T23:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chuckcraytor.com\/about\/"},"modified":"2022-08-03T12:55:54","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T19:55:54","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/chuckcraytor.com\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Chuck Craytor, LPC, NCC<\/h2>

My Work<\/h3>

For over twenty-five years I have worked in the field of personal and executive coaching, workshop facilitation, and leadership development. I have worked with private, non-profit, and governmental organizations. I completed a graduate program in clinical mental health counseling in 2012. The focus of my graduate work was on developing resiliency in the face of adversity, whether in individuals or in community.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>

Throughout my journey, I have been pulled forward by a commitment to explore and transform adversity into opportunities for growth, peace, and love. This commitment has provided the opportunity to work with people locally and internationally as far away as Moldova (Eastern Europe) and Uganda. The path of an explorer has been with me since childhood, and continues.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Chuck Craytor, LPC, NCC<\/h2>

My Work<\/h3>

For over twenty-five years I have worked in the field of personal and executive coaching, workshop facilitation, and leadership development. I have worked with private, non-profit, and governmental organizations. I completed a graduate program in clinical mental health counseling in 2012. The focus of my graduate work was on developing resiliency in the face of adversity, whether in individuals or in community.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Where it all started<\/h3>

I grew up on a farm along the Willamette River in Oregon. The natural environment of my youth had a profound affect on my view of life. The wide and meandering river, grassy fields, the sun sparkling through the trees, the misty winter pastures\u2014this was the sanctuary of my youth. I clearly recall my many conversations with nature.<\/p>

I\u2019ve heard it said that we know who\/what we want to be by the time we are ten years old. I recall a conversation my father was having when I was ten. He was talking about a close family friend. During the conversation he remarked, \u201cI don\u2019t know if I have ever heard my friend Elmer say a negative thing about anyone.\u201d At that moment, I heard myself say, \u201cSomeday I want to be like that. I will be someone who can see the best in people and help bring it out.\u201d<\/p>

When I was 5 years old, my hero was Christopher Columbus (My view of history was out of date at the time). At that time I packed my suitcase and left home to explore the world. I only made it as far as dinnertime. Fortunately, the neighbor\u2019s down the road invited me in for dinner. I postponed my travels until I was 18.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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What I\u2019ve and learned, experienced, and come to understand<\/h3>

There are moments when it seems as if a gentle and still voice is authoring a novel in my life; what appears to be a chance happening is actually an unfolding narrative. My life is composed by the spirit within. Even the people I meet by mere chance often become instrumental in how my life unfolds. Likewise, I can serve in a manner that gives meaning to the lives of others, including myself. Everything links to everything else.<\/p>

Life is full of unexpected twists and turns. Some people are well prepared for the journey. Others of us set out on the journey ill-equipped and unprepared; led forward by an intuitive inner voice. The maps necessary to traverse the geography before us are varied, unknown, and often misunderstood. We must find our teachers along the way. Having many good teachers throughout the journey is one of my many treasures.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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In my view, the world is woven of interconnected threads–we are each linked together. These links are not limited to the human world; they extend to the natural world and all existence.\u00a0<\/p>

You exist in relationship.<\/p>

You have been given the gift of life, and you are irreplaceable. Relationships serve as a mirror for our life.<\/p>

Life is your most precious treasure.<\/p>

It is in the most challenging times that you have an opportunity to discover and develop your authentic self.<\/p>

The real challenge is the struggle to become oneself truly. Not the Self that others might want us to be, not even the Self that we might wish to be, but the deep Self trying to awaken at critical crossroads in each life.<\/p>

As you learn to live authentically, peace, harmony, closeness with others, and the world around you becomes possible.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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The Path of my Experience<\/h3>\n

After high school, I left Oregon and lived on the East Coast for a year and then Japan for a couple of years. I eventually returned to Oregon to attend the University of Oregon to study Education.<\/p>\n

After college, I traveled the \u2018geography of work\u2019 for several years working with a variety of businesses in telecommunications, sales, production, and management.<\/p>\n

By 1993 I settled into the field of consulting\u2014providing organizational development, training, executive coaching, and leadership development services.<\/p>\n

The foundation of my coaching experience comes from several years of conducting and documenting interviews. Starting in the late 1980s I began a practice of interviewing people from various walks of life, especially people in leadership and community development roles. These interviews continued into the late 90\u2019s. In 1996 began a journey of engaging in specific training in ontological coaching, completing more than 30 courses and programs over several years.<\/p>\n

In 2008, I accepted an assignment with Bethel School District (Oregon) at Kalapuya High School working with \u201cat-risk\u201d youth. This school introduced me to many fine youth and teachers. In addition, the open-space design of the school provided daily interaction with a dedicated and passionate staff committed to seeing the best in youth.<\/p>\n

The experience at Kalapuya High School, along with the urging of the gentle inner voice, led me to a graduate school program in Clinical Mental Health Counseling. Graduate school led me to research in Eastern Europe (Moldova) to study trauma and resiliency. My studies encompassed both individual and social trauma and how to develop resiliency in the face of distressing circumstances. This research continued with a return to Moldova in 2015 followed by an assessment trip to Uganda the same year.<\/p>\n

My counseling practice has been further enriched through years of consulting and coaching individuals and groups.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Creating a New Future Together<\/h3>

I have experienced numerous times the power of kindness, compassion, and love in the possibility of creating a new future out of the present moment. This requires having the courage to trust and respond to the still small voice of our innermost being.<\/p>

My intent is that these years of exploring the \u2018geography\u2019 of human nature, work, community, and the natural environmental will contribute to those I work with and to expanding this fundamental consideration; Life\u2019s profound compassion and love is for all living beings.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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      About Chuck Craytor, LPC, NCC My Work For over twenty-five years I have worked in the field of personal and executive coaching, workshop facilitation, and leadership development. I have worked with private, non-profit, and governmental organizations. I completed a graduate program in clinical mental health counseling in 2012. The focus of my graduate work was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckcraytor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckcraytor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckcraytor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckcraytor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckcraytor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/chuckcraytor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3892,"href":"https:\/\/chuckcraytor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions\/3892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckcraytor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}